Mayabeque, Cuba: The journalist María Elena Fernández Ruiz, of Radio Mayabeque, received the Caracol award, granted by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in the radio-documentary genre.

Titled “Huellas de la cobardía” (Marks of the Cowardice), the material reflects a current problem of our reality, gender violence.

“The theme constitutes a social phenomenon that pollutes today's world and that the Cuban family is not exempt from. I had the help of many people to conform it, there is the testimony of a woman who suffered from vilence, the criteria of the Master in Social Psychiatry, Dr. Julián Rivero Batista, the lawyer of the Güines Collective Law Firm, Ana Luz Fernández and the Doctor of Social Sciences, José Luis Martín Romero”, Fernández Ruiz said.

Patriarchy is a form of social organization whose authority is reserved exclusively for men or the male sex. In a patriarchal social structure, women do not assume political leadership, moral authority, privilege, or control over property. For that reason a cultural change is imminent.

"I had a virtuous team of production, in the speech Mercedes Posada and Andrés Alfonso and Manolín Vázquez in the design of sound”, she said.

María Elena Fernández Ruiz has been in the profession for 30 years. She treasures awards at national and provincial radio festivals, as well as awards in provincial journalism competitions and the prize for the work of life Raúl Gómez García.

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